A complicated blog about searching for something through videogames, music, cinema, manga, books and useless questions. Because when you know exactly what you are searching for, it's more difficult to find it.

7 maggio 2017

Wow, i'm not sure why it took me so long to post this comic, as we found it the last summer (2016), but now it's finally here :P Maybe you remember how in 2014 we randomly found the first chapter of a weird, so-bad-it's-good heta-uma manga titled "Heta-Uma! Jiyū no Tabi", made by an anonymous doujin circlethat seems to have made a whole tankobon with the full story, but unfortunately we are still searching for the remaining chapters (we only found the second chapter in 2015) that were scattered away in different bookshop in Ariake (Tokyo), after the authors failed to sell their shitty manga at Comiket. Anyway, as it often happens with traditional manga comics, authors put a few bonus pages in their works with 4-koma humorous strips, as a non-canon joke to complement the main story... well, it seems that even in "Heta-Uma! Jiyū no Tabi" they made a few 4 koma panels as we found them in another little doujin shop near Ariake! As soon as we saw these pages we knew they were from "Heta-Uma! Jiyū no Tabi", the style is unmistakable and the boring pseudo intellectual topics the characters talk about is indeed the same as the main story, so you already know what to expect from this. What can I say? I hope that in 2017 we could find even more chapters from this ugly heta-uma manga, I really can't wait to see the ending of it. In the meantime, enjoy these random 4-komas, you can read it embedded below or download it in PDF.

Not Pixel Art

Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like, you know, "water." We came up with a sound for that. Or "Saber-toothed tiger right behind you." We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is, like, frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, you know, through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we've connected, and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.